If you were watching the Grammys last night, which I wasn’t, you would have seen Michael Jackson’s children accepting their father’s Lifetime Achievement Award. That’s all fine and dandy, but for me the achievement was Jackson’s ability to have two pure, white children. After all, let’s not forget that before Jackson went white, he was born African-American.

And if you need clarification, yes, those are Michael Jackson’s children in the picture above.

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iPad – Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price. — Apple

On January 27th, Apple finally announced their long anticipated “tablet device” called the iPad. While iSlate, iTablet, or even the rehashed iBook would have been good choices, iPad is fine I guess. I would like to see Apple drop the “i” prefix one of these days however.

As expected, the fit and finish of the device is amazing. In keeping with their recent designs, the iPad sports a unibody aluminum back plate and the front is all glass. I’m sure it really feels great in-hand, and I know the glass surface is going to be super-silky smooth to the touch. For the materials, I give an A+. You can’t get any better in my opinion.

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It’s a new year, and I am using a new online backup solution. This time, it’s CrashPlan. So far, so good… but the year is still young.

I’ve tried a handful of different companies, from Amazon S3, Carbonite, Mozy, JungleDisk, to my MobileMe account via iDisk. So far, CrashPlan is the only one with zero issues. All the others I mentioned had some limitation. CrashPlan is also the most widely available, having versions for use with MacOS, Windows, Linux, and even the Solaris operating system. It’s FREE to try and definitely worth it. It’s only $54.00/year for unlimited storage, which makes it the cheapest service out there.

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I’m thrilled that Brett Favre’s season is over. Nothing against The Vikings, I just hate this guy. I’d probably root against the Patriots if Favre was at the helm. Anyway, let me guess… he’s gonna keep the option of retirement on the table until the start of training camp. At that time, he’ll pull the trigger and call it quits. He’ll say his body this, and his desire that, and he just can’t compete at such a high level. Then training camp will end, and it will be just like magic. He’ll be a brand new Brett Favre, ready to play. Funny how that works.

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This is Dilly… he’s a turtle, painted on a sea stone. It was created by an artist named Debby Lindsley. I saw it in the store-front window of small shop in Wickford, Rhode Island. They have dozens of small shops throughout town that offer an eclectic mix of jewelry, art, and antiques, just to name a few.

The entire stone is painted, with the bottom being a “cream” color and with the artist’s signature– and even the turtle’s tail! The turtle already had his name, and comes with a certificate. I only spotted it in the window for a second, but it was enough time for me to walk in the store and buy it.

I usually only collect things that are blue, but I made an exception here.

I normally don’t swear, but please excuse my French when I say that Pat Robertson is the BIGGEST FUCKING IDIOT on the face of this Earth. He is the reason there isn’t a God, because if there were, any righteous God would have offed Robertson’s sorry ass a long time ago. This tired, old, irrelevant, and senile man should keep walking off into the sunset of this flat Earth, dragging his knuckles all the while.

Let’s reminisce… 9-11 was God’s way of dealing with homosexuality. Katrina was God’s way of telling us we are aborting too many fetuses. But this one, this is Robertson’s best… the Haiti earthquake was God’s way of showing anger at the people of Haiti for making a pact with the devil hundreds of years ago. Yes, even the babies and young children. They all are condemned to die. Sighs… a pact with the devil.

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There was a certain e-mail (SPAM) going around speaking ill of Obama and his presidency. They did a comparison of the things Obama did and a “what if” if GW did the same. I couldn’t help but responding to each claim. Personally, I think Obama has done nothing in a year, but it’s a better nothing than GW did in eight.

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

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Each year on December 8th, the world remembers John Lennon for his gift of music. It’s a gift that forever resonates and floats eternally across the universe. But what made this December 8th most special was the fact that I got to spend it in the city that John Lennon loved and called home– New York City. My father, a friend, and myself spent about 7 hours strolling through the city. We walked almost 8 miles when all was said and done. I would have walked ten.

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Sony just released the public beta of MAG, a new type of FPS. MAG’s claim to fame is that it will allow up to 256 players in a game world at one time. This would be the largest FPS to date. Aside from this technical achievement, there are no others to be had for this game. If this game only played 24 or 32 players, no one would be talking about this one at all.

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The game’s interface is not slick or polished and features one of my biggest pet peeves. So my question… why do all games that show some type of computer display on-screen, and as part or the GUI or in-game experience, show a flickering screen with scan lines? Hello? CRTs have been dead for years. There are no scan lines in LCD screens, which obviously is the equipment depicted in the game. Seems this game is trying to capture the realism of displays 15 years in the past. Enough already. You can also see scan lines when you are connecting to server, deploying to your missions, and a few other places within the interface.

The interface looks dated– badly.

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Now that’s a version number!